6.1820 Calendar: Spring 2026

Here is the tentative schedule of lectures and due dates.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
Feb 3
First day of classes
LEC 1: Introduction and Key Ideas (Slides)
Assigned: Lab 0
Feb 5
LEC 2: Fundamentals of IoT Localization (Slides)
Preparation: Read Location-based Services, Wikipedia: GPS (Questions)
Feb 6
iOS Tutorial 4pm-5pm in TBD.
Feb 10
LEC 3: Practical Device-based Localization
Preparation: Read Cricket, RADAR
Assigned: Lab 1
Assigned: Pset 1
(Questions)
Feb 12
LEC 4: Seeing through Walls & Device-Free Localization
Preparation: Read WiTrack
DUE: Lab 0
(Questions)
Feb 16
Presidents' Day
Feb 17
No class. Monday schedule of classes
Feb 19
LEC 5: Network Connectivity (BLE, low-power WAN, Wi-Fi, cellular, 5G)
gps surveillance
DUE: Lab 1
(Questions)
Feb 24
LEC 6: Mesh and Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Preparation: Read ETX
(Questions)
Feb 26
LEC 7: Batteryless Connectivity & Smart Cities
Preparation: Read Hacking RFIDs and Caraoke
(Questions)
Assigned: Lab 2
Mar 3
LEC 8: Intro to Inertial Sensing; Activity Recognition
Preparation: Read Developments of Inertial Sensing and Principles of Inertial Sensing (Section 3.1 and 3.2 only)
(Questions)
Mar 5
LEC 9: Pothole detection
Preparation: Read Pothole Patrol
(Questions)
DUE: Pset 1
Mar 10
LEC 10:Self-Driving Cars
Preparation: Read Hawkeye: Through Fog High Resolution Imaging Using Millimeter Wave Radar
(Questions)
Assigned:Lab 3
DUE: Lab 2
Mar 12
LEC 11:Earables and Health
Preparation: Read Hearable devices with sound bubbles
(Questions)
Assigned: Project Proposal Instructions
Assigned: Pset 2
Mar 17
LEC 12: Attacks on Acoustic Sensing
Preparation: Read BackDoor
(Questions)
DUE: Lab 3
Mar 19
LEC 13: Wireless NeRFs
Preparation: Read Can NeRFs See without Cameras?
(Questions)
Assigned:Lab 4
Mar 23
Spring Break
Mar 24
Spring Break
Mar 25
Spring Break
Mar 26
Spring Break
Mar 27
Spring Break
Mar 31
LEC 14: Agriculture IoT
Preparation: Read FarmBeats
(Questions)
DUE: Project Proposals
Apr 2
LEC 15: Ocean IoT
Preparation: Read Underwater Backscatter Networking
(Questions)
Apr 7
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Lab 4
Apr 9
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Pset 2
Apr 14
Quiz review session during class
DUE:Final Project Components List
Apr 16
Midterm during lecture time
Apr 20
Patriots' Day
Apr 21
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Drop Date
Apr 23
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Apr 28
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
Apr 30
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
May 5
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
DUE: Project Titles and Abstracts
May 7
Project meetings
(No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
May 12
Final Presentations
DUE: Presentations and Demos
Last Day of Classes
May 15
Finals begin